Improving nurse faculty job satisfaction: An action guide for academic nurse leaders.

Background: Academic nurse leadership is associated with nurse faculty job satisfaction, yet there is a gap between theoretical understanding of leadership concepts and specific actionable behaviors that can be implemented to increase nurse faculty job satisfaction.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to create an evidence-based action guide for academic nurse leaders at all leadership levels to use to improve nurse faculty job satisfaction.

Methods: A two-phase approach was used.

Inspiring and Nurturing Human-Centered Leaders: The Vital Role of Mentorship.

Because health care is a relational profession, logic suggests the structures, processes, and outcomes of nursing leadership and mentoring should be strongly grounded in relational concepts. Human-Centered Leadership in Healthcare™ provides an evidence-based, contemporary structure to carry out the vital process of mentoring for future leaders to deliver on patient and team member outcomes. .

Human-centred leadership in health care: A contemporary nursing leadership theory generated via constructivist grounded theory.

Aim: To generate a unique and contemporary leadership theory reflecting the essence of nursing within a complex health care environment.

Background: As health care faces unprecedented change and increasing complexity, a nursing leadership theory embedded within complexity science is vital for teams to be innovative, nimble and focused on human-centred care.

Methods: Constructivist grounded theory framed exploration of human issues embedded in nursing leadership.

Human-Centered Leadership in Health Care: An Idea That's Time Has Come.

The Human-Centered Leadership model, which is relevant for leaders at all levels in a complex health care system, embraces change from the inside out. The Human-Centered Leader (HCL) is embedded in the organization, rather than positioned above it, and recognizes the expertise and value of those who serve at the point of care. The HCL starts with a focus on self-awareness, self-compassion, self-care, and mindfulness while focusing on others through demonstration of the characteristics of an Awakener, a Connector, and an Upholder.

Clinical Nurse Leader Knowledge Production to Quality Improvement in a Seamless Trajectory: A Participatory Research Approach.

Background: Health systems are actively implementing Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL)-integrated care delivery across the United States.

Problem: However, the CNL model is a complex health care intervention, making it difficult to generate evidence of effectiveness using traditional research frameworks.

Approach: Participatory research is a growing alternative to traditional research frameworks, emphasizing partnership with target community members in all phases of research activities.